Random Paintings and Sketches of the recent months.

 

As we march to war

Acrylics on Canvas - 70X100cm

It's been a while since I had the time to finish a non-digital painting. Even-though I really enjoy the process I do miss the undo button at times. Those layers and adjustments in Photoshop would be very helpful in real life. Since I'm moving to the UK in a week, I won't have the opportunity anytime soon to start a new painting. Sad. But I will be working my ass off at "Rare" for the next six months! Not a bad way to spend your time too, right?
PS. the painting is for sale.

Z.E.D's

Some explosive zombies for valentines day. They are a part of my little Mechs vs Zombies project.
2023, the whole of the Americas has been overrun by a mutated Ebola virus, turning almost everyone into zombies. What started as an humanitarian operation by the new superpowers of the world. Ended up as full-on land grab. Creating a new cold war with many open conflicts. The best equipment for this operation are mechs, fusion powered walking tanks. Great for clearing (sub)urban areas of zombies and other threats.
Thousands of survivors on American soil have formed strongholds. From there they do not only try to survive the zombies but also keep their country free of these mechanical invaders. They are the American Human Resistance and their main weapons are ZEDs; zombie explosive devices.
Well more on that project later. Cheers!

Street Assault

Here's something the I did for an art-test over the weekend. The top one is a speedpaint and the bottom one a more worked out version based on the speedpaint. I had very strict guidelines, like which character, what kind of environment and which rifle to use.
I really don't know why I keep doing these bloody art-tests. They eat up all my time and stress levels sore because the only feedback I will get is: yes or no. Maybe I do it in the hope that I can leave this unpredictable freelancing behind and join a nice team again. Anyway, it's always good to have some more work to add to my portfolio I guess.

Mechs, 3D and some zombies...

I've "secretly" been working on a new project for some time. It's a personal project that I'm not going to disclose to much about it except that it includes mechs and zombies. After some initial sketches I wanted to brush up my 3D skills and modeled the mech in 3DsMax. I often use Max to set up scenes but only very simple and basic, this one was a bit more of a challenge and it was very rewarding to get quite close to the initial sketch. For the buildings in the scene I booted up SketchUp for the second time and found it to be really great for simple geometry. Finally I had myself some fun playing around with the renders in Max. Now I just need to paint in the dozens of zombies and a shitload of destruction and fire. FUN!
Top image: Quicksilver render, 10 minutes on 4.0X Quality with "mr sky portal" lights.
Bottom image: Iray render, 45 minutes with "mr sky portal" lights.

Mech thumbnails

high-res version
A black ballpoint pen and three pieces A4 Paper later. I moved recently to a studio space I share with friends. This means my PC and Wacom are not available to me at home anymore. It felt really good to crank out these thumbnails on paper again. Sketching with a ballpoint can be though because you have to commit to you lines. I left all the mistakes in, let me know which one is you favorite.

Jungle Race

Here's a little thing I've put together quickly for a undisclosed project. I tried to push the FX and colors to a level that should give it an almost in-game look.

Swamp Walkers

A little speedpaint.

MDK

BattleMage

Here's a follow up on my BattleMage thumbnails I did about a month ago. Spend a bit more time on it to get in some more details. I need to practice more on high detail characters, it's good fun if you have the time :)

First sketch of 2012

Helmets

I really don't know why but I felt an urge to draw weird helmets. Some look like proper motor helmets... lets call this a test and lets hope I learned something from it.

City Entrance - Enviroment Thumbnails

Battlemages

Gatecrasher repair

Well, another one that took me a bit longer to finish than I liked (16hours). I guess that by stretching the work over a couple of days didn't help. Not working in an office has it's benefits but it also means that I get distracted easily by all kinds of things, either work or pleasure related. So to have actually finished this is actually quite a relieve.
This is not official Killzone art, it's more like fan art and to prove that I can do something along the style of the game.

Pen Sketches (for sale)

It was about time I scanned something. These are done straight on paper with a ballpoint pen. I actually barely use pencils anymore. Somhow the pen feels better when sketching and mistakes can be lucky accidents...
Anyway, the two are for sale. The originals are 150,- euro's each. Mail me if you are interested.

Ikko Ikki Assassins

I finally got myself to finish this one. It's a bit of wink to Assassin's Creed but with a Japanese twist. I've struggled with the composition and I still think I might tweak it a bit later. The Ikko Ikki are and old Japanese "clan" that came forth out of a budist movement. These guys where mainly monks and peasants... can you tell I'm a big Shogun 2: Total War player :)
Anyway, it's nice to finally have a more finished piece down after all the 15 minutes sketches. Cheers!

Updated Marine

I thought it was time to add some color.